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Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

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Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

Joe Lonsdale

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I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

Andrew Dost

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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Meg Whitman

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In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Robert Kiyosaki

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There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.

Angela Duckworth

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If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

Steve Berry

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Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

Mike Figgis

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I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

Michael Sheen

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I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

Michael Keaton

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'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.

Lou Barlow

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It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

DeMar DeRozan

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Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Donald Rumsfeld

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